This is an analysis of the poem St. Valentines Day that begins with:
Now that each feather'd Chorister doth sing
The glad approches of the welcome Spring: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhdbhXXbXXddeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010011 01100001001 111101101 110100011 1101010101 0111011101 1101010110 10001100011 11110101101 1101010111 11111001010 11110011110 1111111111 1101010101 1101111101 1001000101 0101111101 1101110101 1111111111 0101100100 1111000110 1111010111 1111010101 1101111101 1111011111 01001010101 1110111011 1101010001 1111110111 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1281
- Average number of words per stanza: 235
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
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